[Info-vax] VMS Features I Wish Linux Had

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 6/14/16 11:28 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Jan-Erik Soderholm  <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
>> Today I had a call from a consultant brooker in Sweden. He had seen my
>> profile on LinkedIn. He had an assignment from a large swedish company
>> to find 10-20 VMS developers. This was not for a specific project for a
>> limited time but to fill current vacancies. The guy sounded desperate.
>>
>> It seems as that company do not advert the VMS positions externally any
>> more, maybe there is no meaning, they call the jobb brookers instead.
>
> That is the case with pretty much all technical jobs.  The HR guys,
> instead of doing their jobs, contract the work out to headhunters, who
> bring in anyone they can find on the street.
>

Worse still, they contract resume scanning out to pieces of software
that don't understand anything they read and can only see key words.
Thus, "5 years of experience" trumps "30 years maintaining Unix Systems"
because the program only looks for the word "experience".
Of course, it could be the other way around depending on what the
keyword is.  And you have no way of knowing.


bill